NBA coaches and players have a reputation for being socially conscious activists who share their takes on everything from gun control, to immigration, to the Trump White House, to race relations. This has won them plenty of plaudits and favorable press from a captivated and grateful news media.
But the NBA’s subservience to its Chinese corporate overlords, which has spilled into public view this week, is doing an amazing job of revealing just how devoted many of these supposed social activists are to standing for justice. As it turns out, for many of these allegedly brave advocates for social change, their dedication to “woke” culture ends exactly where their paychecks begin.
The more likely thing here is that they are cowards, plain and simple. They talk a big game about social justice. They will opine at length about topics as complicated and fraught as gun control and immigration as long as it wins them praise in the domestic press. But, man, please do not ask them anything that could jeopardize their paychecks or the NBA’s expansion into China.
